Bitcoin Forum

Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: gravitate on September 11, 2013, 07:10:21 AM



Title: Cold storage problems
Post by: gravitate on September 11, 2013, 07:10:21 AM
I am making some cold storage litecoin and bitcoin wallets. However I only have 70 digits I can type. With a litcoin wallet this is no good as I have 85 digits. I have tried on the litecoin block explorer to enter the first 8 digits as you can on the bitcoin one to veryfy the balance but it didn't work.

Is there anyway round this? I know for bitcoin I can just record the first 8 digits but what about the litecoin? Is ther a way to generate a miniy private key? If so how do I do this?
Thanks


Title: Re: Cold storage problems
Post by: gravitate on September 11, 2013, 03:04:02 PM
No ideas?


Title: Re: Cold storage problems
Post by: deepceleron on September 11, 2013, 03:11:53 PM
Address: 1GRaviTaB5kizyHpt1SUSmwjTJkude8FfE
Privkey: 5JvVieeJr7aq1E7B1sy2y7sZE6m91w62ACvU6UpuUmockSb8MQs

Looks like 51 digits to me. You would get a useful response if you said what you are attempting to do and what non-bitcoin-qt software you are using to create a "wallet".

If that's too much for you, the (less secure) mini-private-key format used on Casascius coins could be adapted to LTC. https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php?topic=2968.0


Title: Re: Cold storage problems
Post by: gravitate on September 11, 2013, 05:34:42 PM
Hi I'm using www.bitaddress.org and I'm putting the code on a box maximum 70 digits


Title: Re: Cold storage problems
Post by: gravitate on September 12, 2013, 09:24:42 AM
or is there a way of shortening the addresses?